The Conjoined A Novel Jen Sookfong Lee by Jen Sookfong Lee 9781770412842, 9781770909052, 9781770909069, 1770412840, 1770909052, 1770909060 instant download after payment.

The Conjoined follows social worker Jessica Campbell as she struggles to uncover her dead mother’s most deeply buried secrets. Set alternately in present-day & 1980s Vancouver, The Conjoined is a literary novel inspired by crime fiction & that challenges our perceptions of victim & villain, saviour & sinner.

On a sunny May morning, Jessica sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery—2 dead girls curled into the bottoms of her mother’s deep chest freezers. Immediately, she remembers a pair of teenaged sisters who lived with the family in 1988 as foster children: Casey & Jamie Cheng—troubled, beautiful & wild. After 6 weeks, they disappeared, with social workers & police officers assuming they had run away. Jessica becomes obsessed with these girls—their stories, their family & how they came to live—and fundamentally change—Jessica & her parents, Donna & Gerry.    
Jessica struggles with grief, a job she hates & a quickly disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend as she searches for records as well as the people who loved & hurt the Cheng sisters. As she learns more about Casey, Jamie & their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also begins to unearth other, darker stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother & foster mother. Jessica delves further into Donna’s past & discovers old & horrifying secrets, secrets that shatter what she once believed about her family & that point to the complicated truth behind Casey & Jamie’s fate.

The Conjoined is a novel that unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism & how race & class can assign unwanted roles to society’s most vulnerable individuals & the well-intentioned social service workers who mean to help. Set in the middle-class suburb of North Vancouver, as well as Chinatown & the infamous Do